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  Access E Internet Education  
 

Helping Minnesotans tap the potential of the Internet

Cyber Café, Wadena, MN

Cyber Café, Wadena, MN.

The Internet is key to the survival and growth of small towns, small businesses and small government. If you have information, entertainment, or connections that others want, you can compete or collaborate with anyone anywhere. Access E.info programs provide online resources and hands-on workshops that help small businesses, local government, nonprofits and community leaders discover how to use the Internet to its greatest capacity. Internet users in your community can generate more local creativity, more Internet skills, and more demand for better technology.


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Is your community stuck in the Internet slow lane?

What can you do? — Here’s a list of ideas for how you can involve everyone.

 

Educational Offerings  
 

Local sponsors bring educators to your area for hands-on training developed with your community in mind.

Access E Internet Education programs and online resources are available for different audiences:

Access eCommerce — helps small businesses participate in the global economy — encouraging local business startup and growth. Contact an educator.

Access eNonProfit — helps the staff of nonprofit organizations understand the potential of their web presence, develop a web strategy and find affordable resources. Contact an educator.

Access eGovernment — aids local governments in planning dynamic information-rich websites that meet the needs of citizens and government. Contact an educator.

Access eBroadband — is a primer on high-speed internet access, or broadband. What is it? How does it work? What are the advantages? Contact an educator.

Access eInternet — helps people new to the Internet learn about getting connected, browsers, email, searching, and web safety. Contact an educator.

Access eCommunity — is a local leader’s guide to mobilizing a community to use the Internet. Learn how creating community content on the web gets people excited about technology. (Developed in collaboration with the Southern Rural Development Center.) Contact an Educator in Leadership and Civic Engagement or Community Economics.

 

Who has sponsored Access E.info workshops in Minnesota?  
 

Bring Access E.info to your community! Sponsors like these have seen the local benefits:

  • Sugarloaf Cove Interpretive Center, Cook County, MN
  • West Central Sustainable Rural Partnership
  • Blandin Foundation “Get Broadband” Program
  • Pine Technical College, Pine County, MN
  • East Central Arts Council, Cambridge, MN
  • Blandin Foundation Goods for the Woods program
  • Local governments in Sherburne County
  • Local governments in Pine County
  • Chambers of Commerce
 

Contact Information

Rae Montgomery
Technology Literacy Coordinator
Community Vitality Capacity Area
U of MN Extension Service
448 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
Email: rae@umn.edu
Phone: 612-624-2773
Fax: 612-625-1955

Program Team
Leadership and Civic Engagement Regional Educators

 

 
 
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